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The Remarkable True Story of the Couple Who Posed as Master and Slave to Escape Bondage
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA portrait of Ellen Craft in the book 'Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.' Credit - Public Domain...
Column: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America
LA Times via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoAbortion rights supporters march to the White House to denounce the U.S. Supreme Court decision to...
Adam, blacksmith and champion of freedom, dies without honor of last name | Righting the past
Pensacola News Journal via Yahoo News· 10 months agoEditor’s note: This is the thirteenth in a series of historical obituaries written today to honor...
16 women abolitionists you may not know about
Stacker via AOL· 3 months agoLibrary of Congress // Getty Images; Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images It is an egregious fact that forced labor has long been a practice in...
First U.S. woman undertaker helped people flee slavery in coffins. Meet Henrietta Duterte
Courier Post via Yahoo News· 1 year ago“I saw my mother raise a man from the dead.” Born enslaved, the man’s only way out of the American...
Did the Confederates have a point, kind of? Here's a hint: not really
Salon via Yahoo News· 4 months agoRobert E Lee statue removal Eze Amos/Getty Images There’s no doubt that Australian law professor...
'Important effort': Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force works to connect projects
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 3 months agoArt Wilson said he can't number the people he has seen moved to tears or simply walk away from an...
Opinion | The States Will Soon Be at Each Other’s Throats Over Abortion
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOn May 24, 1854, Anthony Burns, an enslaved man who had escaped from Virginia, was arrested in Boston. According to the terms of the Fugitive Slave Act, enacted in 1850, enslaved people who ...
How some enslaved Black people stayed in Southern slaveholding states – and found freedom
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBlack fugitives fleeing slavery on the Underground Railroad, Photo 12/Universal Images Group via...
A 1787 federal law forbade slavery in Ohio, but African Americans here still faced abuses
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe history of African-Americans in Columbus and central Ohio is a long and complex story....